SCRIM FABRIC PROPERTIES
A scrim
or gauze is a very light textile made from cotton, or sometimes flax. It is lightweight
and translucence. Scrims both reflect and transmit light. This means that if a
light from a front-of-house position is shone at a scrim, then both the scrim
and everything behind it will be lit.
This can
lead to a variety of interesting effects:
• A
scrim will appear entirely opaque if everything behind it is unlit and the
scrim itself is grazed by light from the sides or from above.
• A
scrim will appear nearly transparent if a scene behind it is lit, but there is
no light on the scrim.
• A
dreamy or foggy look can be achieved by lighting a scene entirely behind a
scrim.
If a light is aimed at a scrim, the image will appear
on the scrim, but also any objects behind the scrim will be lit by the pattern
as well.
MATERIALS
The
installation’s construction materials are consisted of 9 pieces of 2” by 4”
inches Para wood, Linin scrim fabric 2.8 meters by 4.5 meters dimension and two
white-xenon spotlights 50 watt including portable battery. The tools including
metal nails, hot glues and staple gun.
CONSTRUCTION
The vertical structure’s height is 2.20 meters
and horizontal member is about 2 meters in each side. There are connected
together by metal plates, nails and hot glue. Then stretching the scrim fabric
onto the panels by a staple gun. Trying to hide the joist rigidly and cover it
tightly with fabric. Later put the xenon spotlights in opposite to the panel
positions about 2-3 meters further away.
INSTALLATION LAYOUT
The intervention is placed in
perpendicular; composed of two adjacent partitions adhered to each other. The
bases are connected both on the ground and above to firmly stabilize the
structure and to avoid falling down back or forth.
INTENDED EFFECTS
It’s the
act of doing things together; where you, the viewer, can be part of the
experience.
You can
both be a part of participant and audience just where the position you are in.
Hence, creating
a temporarily moment of peeking or watching other people doing some activity
without the awareness of him-herself. As if you are a voyeur.
HOW?
Activity
involving human gestures and movements that seems to be expose to each other
while trying to be obscure from other who is irrelevant with the event or in
this case, the observer that peeping at some distance.
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